This adorable card looks like an international airmail postcard with stiped border, canceled faux stamp and cute stamped mice on paper airplanes soaring among the clouds. Learn more on the Lawn Fawn blog.
There’s a recent trend in card making using Postage inspired stamps, dies and stencils. This includes techniques like creating your own faux postage stamps, adding wax seals to cards and envelopes and other mail themed designs. This trend was very big many years ago and I’m so glad to see it come back because I still have lots of crafty postage themed products plus it’s just a really fun way to customize your handmade cards and other paper crafting projects! So let’s take at look at some wonderful Postage themed card ideas…….
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This sweet and simple card has lots of tiny envelopes sealed with hearts. Kristina will show you how to make the envelopes from cardstock, no fancy dies needed. Plus she made this amazing custom envelope to mail it in. And yes, you can send envelopes like this through the mail! Watch her video tutorial on the K. Werner blog.
This darling design features a stamped scene of a little girl and a family of ducks splashing through the rain to mail a letter. Tina colored the stamps with Copic markers adding some white gel pen and touches of glitter for extra detail. Visit the Sunny Studio Stamps blog for a more.
Here’s a beautiful example of faux postage using products from Waffle Flower. Jennifer used dies to make the holes and scalloped edges of the faux stamps and a coordinating stencil to add background color, then stamped and colored the flowers over top. Visit the Jennifer McGuire blog for a how to video.
The very old tradition of wax seals is making a big comeback, they add such a regal touch to any card design, add them to backs of envelopes too. Spellbinders has everything you need from wax, melting pots, metal stamps and handles. Visit the Spellbinders blog to learn how to add additional color to a seal.
This stunning interactive card features a vintage style mail box that flaps open to reveal small post cards inside. Bobbi used stamps, dies and embossing folders from Honey Bee Stamps to create it, find all the details on their blog.
This card is bursting with beautiful colorful faux postage stamps. Laura heat embossed the stamps in white on different colors of cardstock, adding touches of monochromatic color with markers to each one. She die cut and then popped them up with foam tape and added a vellum and metallic gold die cut sentiment over top. Watch her video tutorial on the Simon Says Stamp blog.
This pretty pastel card has faux stamps with soft ink blended backgrounds and little stamped images with sweet postage themes like envelopes, a mail truck, mail box and more. Visit the Encre, Papier, Ciseaux blog for more info.
This sweet card has lots of pattern papers, pre-printed dies, stitching and twine in a trendy teal and red color combo with a mail box and lots of little envelopes. I spotted this card on the Echo Park Paper Instagram page.
This mixed media card has a very vintage vibe with layers of stamped postmarks and tickets with brown and gold inks. Rosie used stamps and inks from Hero Arts for this design.
Faux postage is a great way to create smaller scenes and include lots of different stamps on one card like this amazing forest fairies card from Allison. I came across her stunning card design on the Sweet November Stamps Instagram page.
And finally here’s a fancy floral faux postcard with stamped rose wreath, die cut butterflies and shiny rub-on sentiment in an lovely orange color palette. Take a closer look on the Penny Black blog. And in a fun related note did you know the first ever adhesive postage stamp was called the Penny Black?
I hope you’ve enjoying this look at Postage and Mail themed cards and give some of these wonderful products and techniques and try on your next card deisgns.
-Heather
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